A History of the Farmington Plan
Title | A History of the Farmington Plan PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph D. Wagner |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 462 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Education |
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In 1942 an advisory board to the Library of Congress drafted a proposal for a national program of cooperation among research libraries, aimed at acquiring "at lease one copy of every book published anywhere in the world, ... which might conceivably be of interest to a research worker in America." And thus was born the Farmington Plan, which began operation in 1948 under the sponsorship of the Association of Research Libraries. In 1972 the failing plan was abandoned. This is the first in-depth study of the plans shortcomings and achievements.
Farmington Plan Handbook
Title | Farmington Plan Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Everitt Williams |
Publisher | Association of Research Libr |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Farmington plan |
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Farmington Plan Survey
Title | Farmington Plan Survey PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Vosper |
Publisher | Association of Research Libr |
Total Pages | 636 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Cooperative acquisition of library materials |
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Farmington Plan Handbook
Title | Farmington Plan Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1953 |
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Farmington Plan Allocation Tables
Title | Farmington Plan Allocation Tables PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Everitt Williams |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 142 |
Release | 1953 |
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Farmington Plan Newsletter
Title | Farmington Plan Newsletter PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Association of Research Libr |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Acquisition of foreign publications |
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Information Hunters
Title | Information Hunters PDF eBook |
Author | Kathy Peiss |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 297 |
Release | 2020-01-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190944617 |
"Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools and gather together countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques in wartime conditions, they contributed to Allied intelligence, preserved endangered books, engaged in restitution, and participated in the denazification of book collections. Information Hunters explores what collecting meant to the men and women who embarked on these missions, and how the challenges of a total war led to an intense focus on books and documents. It uncovers the worlds of collecting, in spy-ridden Stockholm and Lisbon, in liberated Paris and devastated Berlin, and in German caves and mineshafts. The wartime collecting missions had lasting effects. They intensified the relationship between libraries and academic institutions, on the one hand, and the government and military, on the other. Book and document acquisition became part of the apparatus of national security, military planning, and postwar reconstruction. These efforts also spurred the development of information science and boosted research libraries' ambitions to be great national repositories for research and the dissemination of knowledge that would support American global leadership, politically and intellectually. military intelligence, librarians, archivists, Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Services."--